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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

Where was this post about following orders going against the constitution being unlawful...

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Can anyone independently verify such a “surge”?

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta love people posting about hotlines and not including the number for the hotline.

[–] HowAbt2day 19 points 17 hours ago

Call 1-877-447-4487

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago

Its 1-877-447-4487

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don't have any moral objection to it? How reassuring..

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

a) Those moral objections aren't going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you're just following orders because everything happened so fast

b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump's army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

c) If enough people leave, it's going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to ~~martial~~ marshall force, and that's a good thing for us.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Huh? Martial is correct, martial law marshals soldiers.

E) never mind, I missed the ‘to’ before it.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hesgeth to the Marines: "The beatings will continue until morale improves! hic"

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 40 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Some random news editor: Why is Pete sending this to me?

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

His dominatrix: "fuck yeah they will!"

Edit: came up with better joke quick enough to edit.

Edit: edit: I see that yours was 13 hrs old already, so I guess I wasn't exactly in a rush.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

👊👮‍♂️👮‍♂️🇺🇲

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago

Sometimes when you feel a way it's because things are that way.

For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 19 hours ago

Refuse orders, arrest Trump and his ghouls.

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 11 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

(Yes I can infer what it's about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for..)

[–] Nikko882@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Non-American as well, but I believe GI means "General Infantry", but in use GI means "Army Man/Soldier" so it doesn't really matter what the letters stand for.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

it doesn't really matter what the letters stand for.

This is American English we're talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as "G.I. cans".[2][3] During the same war, "G.I.", reinterpreted as "government issue"[2] or "general issue",[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., "G.I. soap".[3] Other reinterpretations of "G.I." include "garrison issue" and "general infantry".[3]

The earliest known recorded instances of "G.I." being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of "G.I. Joe" it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that "G.I. Joe" encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term "G.I. Joe," who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

Obviously supporting the important work here, just couldn't resist

[–] lemmus@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago
[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly this will leave the ranks filled with sycophants, so we'll be worse off

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah they should just stay in and protect the protesters

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

That website though, kept reading Giri Ghost Hotline